Doctors at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital used a cutting-edge medical technique called gene therapy to treat 10 babies born with the disease.
lived his entire life in a protective plastic bubble. Vetter died more than 30 years ago, at age 12, after a failed treatment.
St. Jude scientists just announced that they have successfully cured babies with XSCID, using a new experimental gene therapy that targets the disease at the genetic level.For babies born with the severe genetic condition known as"bubble boy" disease, a run-of-the-mill common cold can be deadly. Born without crucial disease-fighting immune cells, they must be kept isolated from the outside world for their own protection. Months in the hospital and being treated for severe infections is the norm. Without treatment, most born with the disease die as infants.St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
. Ten babies born with the genetic disease, X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency , have been successfully treated, with no apparent side effects, the researchers said on Wednesday. The kids are now making their own immune cells. Nearly all have been able to go home with their families and live normal lives, including attending day care, with one more recently treated child remaining at St. Jude for the time being.of the St. Jude Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy.
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